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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by tyingq on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @07:35PM (#13648708)
>the only growth market for Oracle right now is their hosted database service, and whoops Google has a better one now

It could end up that way, but lacking INSERT and UPDATE will likely limit this to a niche market for now.

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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by anjanb on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @03:48AM (#13650637)
I thought SQL compatible means INSERT and UPDATE available. Why aren't these statements available ?
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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by vgt on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @06:42AM (#13651301)
Technically those are dml statements.
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